On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 12:03:43PM +0200, Erdal Ronahi wrote: > >Indeed, there is a Kurdish locale in the alternative locales package > >from Denis Barbier : belocs-locales-data. > > > Ok, I found the package and installed it. I was even able to use the > Kurdish locale with it, so it seems it works fine with Ubuntu. Yeah!
I try to maintain /usr/share/doc/belocs-locales-data/README.Debian.gz up-to-date, this file lists differences against upstream GNU libc (and therefore mostly against the locales package) and give credits to locale contributors. In this case, the ku_TR locale indeed comes from Mandriva. > >This Kurdish locale should indeed be submitted to the locales package, > >I guess. Erdal, would you care reviewing it? I may send it to you if > >you want and compare it with the Mandrake one. > > > Yes, I would like to review it. I am not familiar to the terminology you > use, though. What does it meant that Debian maintainers are "blocked"? > What can I do to get the locale into Debian or other Debian-based > distributions? Ask them to ship belocs-locales-data ;) > Is the package that Denis prepared useable? I am working on Ubuntu 5.10. > Our group has just finished translating AbiWord into Kurdish, but I > can't use it because there is no Kurdish locale. There are 2 packages: belocs-locales-data contains locale definitions, and depends on belocs-locales-bin which ships patched localedef and locale-gen programs. The belocs-locales-bin package depends on libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), so it can be installed on any recent Debian derivative distribution. You can also recompile it very easily, and install it with GNU libc >= 2.1.96. There is a minor problem with Ubuntu language-packs though, because locale-gen is patched by Ubuntu to accept a --keep-existing flag. You will discover that this flag is useless with belocs-locales-bin, but locale-gen chokes on it. My next upload of belocs-locales-bin will silently ignore this flag. Denis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
